where she teaches Strategic Management and Organization Change and Development.With a background in trade unions and education, her academic interests include qualitative research methods, trade unions, union strategy and behaviour, union values, organizing approaches and mobilization, union renewal, changes to work and work intensification. She is currently involved in collaborative research which examines the organizing methods of home-based workers in the informal sector.

homework, informal employment, corporate social responsibility, ethical networks, supply chains,

This article explores and applies Kalleberg’s concept and dimensions of precarious work in relation to garment homework in Argentina. Although precarious work exists across formal and informal employment, its nature and dimensions are most commonly researched in relation to formal work in developed economies where the loss of standard conditions can be documented. Similarly, homework is most usually discussed as a category of informal work, in the context of developing countries, within which precariousness is one among numerous aspects of adverse job quality. Applying the concept of precariousness enables homework to be assessed systematically against specific labour standards, yielding a more powerful analysis than reference to a general deficit. This may increase our understanding of homework especially with regard to addressing labour standards.

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